Polarized radiative transfer models

If your model should be included in this table, please send all required information to Claudia Emde.

Name	Group /Institute	Method	Model geometry	Availability
MYSTIC	LMU Munich	Monte Carlo	1D/3D plane-parallel/spherical	1D version available at www.libradtran.org, 3D restricted, contact Claudia Emde
SCIATRAN	IUP Bremen	Discrete Ordinate	1D plane-parallel/spherical	freely available, registration required
SOSVRT	Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing	successive order of scattering	1D plane-parallel	not yet released to public, contact Duan Minzheng
3DMCPOL	Uni Lille	Monte Carlo	3D plane-parallel	not yet released to the public, contact Céline Cornet
SHDOM	Uni Colorado	spherical harmonics discrete ordinate	3D plane-parallel	freely available, contact Frank Evans
IPOL	USRA GESTAR	Discrete Ordinate	1D plane-parallel	freely available, contact Sergey Korkin
MSCART	Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology China	Monte Carlo	1D/3D plane-parallel	freely available, registration required, contact Zhen Wang
SPARTA	TROPOS, Leipzig, Germany	Monte Carlo	3D plane-parallel	freely available, contact Vasileios Barlakas

Other tools

Anapol: An interactive tool to analyze the TOA polarized reflectance measured by Parasol developed by F.-M. Bréon.